When Landis got his jaw up off the floor he asked him how he thought he would do this very surprising thing. Sutherland said, "Watch." He then left the set, whereupon he removed his pants and his boxers or whatever. He was wearing the sweater that you see in the movie, so he put his hands in the pockets and pushed it down so that it covered his "unmentionables," in Karen's words. He then entered the scene, said a line to Karen, turned and reached up into the kitchen cabinet, revealing his bare bottom as casually and elegantly as only Donald Sutherland could. Karen thought at that moment that if a true movie star could do it then she certainly could and she trusted Landis enough to believe that he would use both shots. And he did.

When asked what she is doing now, Karen points out that she lives in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, has raised her son who is now 17 and has gone off to college and runs a company called Karen Allen Fabric Arts. She had originally gone to school at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan but didn't finish because acting got in the way, so when she had a lull in working as an actress she went back, finished and learned to use a particular kind of Japanese loom. She designs the fabric, uses only the best cashmere and sells her scarves, sweaters and hats out of a store in Pittsfield and online.

Her work is carried in a small store in Chicago called Sweet William. I don't know where it is and neither did she. "Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull" is coming out in May. She brings back Marian Ravenswood, a great character she created in the first of the now four Indiana Jones films. Once we were on the set in Eugene, I didn't spend much time with Karen because she was aligned with that other fraternity, but in Chicago I finally got to dance with her. I danced with Karen Allen. That was pretty neat.